Cao Bianjiao is very trusting of Cao Bianjiao, and he believes that his cousin will be able to lead the army to defeat the crippled Jiannu.

After Dolgon, Duoduo, and Azig led the remnants of the army to withdraw from Guannai, although they tried to maintain the unity and strength of the so-called Qing Dynasty through various methods to rectify military affairs, the Koreans and Mongols rebelled one after another, and other tribes also turned against them, and the strength of the so-called "Manchu Qing" declined like a cliff.

Now the tribes and men that the Dorgon brothers can control are only more than 300,000, you must know that this is all the personnel, including the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, except for the old, weak, sick and disabled women, the most people who can really go to war are only more than 100,000. When Jiannu was in its heyday, there was no way to defeat the Ming army equipped with a large number of firearms, and now that the sun is twilight, then don't expect to defeat the more well-equipped Ming Guards.

As long as Cao Bianjiao is not careless, this Northern Expedition will completely solve the matter of Jiannu, which is a sure thing. Cao Yue also believes that Cao Bianjiao, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, will not be careless.

In fact, Cao Yue wanted to personally lead the army to conquer Jiannu, and complete the mission of erasing Jiannu from the earth, but Cao Bianjiao grabbed this task with him, and he was now accompanied by a large number of beauties, and Gentle Township was a little reluctant to leave, and a variety of factors finally decided to hand over the arduous task to Cao Bianjiao to be responsible, and he sat back and enjoyed his success in Nanjing, enjoyed life, and planned things well.

Cao Yue was not at ease to let the Red Lady lead the army to conquer the Liukou, but the girl was very persistent, saying that she must personally kill or capture Li Zicheng to avenge Li Yan. She also explained to Cao Yue that doing this does not mean that she still misses Li Yan, her current feelings are all on Cao Yue, so that Cao Yue should not misunderstand, she just fulfilled a wish, avenged Li Yan, and settled everything between Li Yan and Li Yan.

Cao Yue also fulfilled the wish of the red lady, but she was afraid that she would make a mistake. Therefore, several generals with rich combat experience were appointed as her deputies to assist her in the expedition.

Although the red lady has not officially become Cao Yue's concubine, almost no one does not know that this legendary woman is already Cao Yue's woman, and she is willing to give up everything else in order to marry Cao Yue. Cao Yue's women, even if their qualifications are a little shallow and their abilities are a little worse, no one dares to underestimate her, including Liu Rusi, Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Xiaowan and the same women, Cao Jie and Gao Jie. didn't dare to be unconvinced, obediently obeyed the order, and followed the red lady to quell the rebellion.

Fighting on two fronts, Cao Yue didn't worry too much, today's Ming Guards, in terms of equipment, are very different from Liukou and Jiannu, and in terms of training, they are not comparable to a rabble like Liukou and Jiannu who have been disabled, and in terms of overall combat effectiveness, they will definitely win much better than Liukou and Jiannu. Therefore, he is not worried about the two-front battle weakening the strength and leading to chaos.

In the two-front battle, in fact, not much troops were used, and Cao Yue still had a lot of mobile forces in his hands. He also prepared to clean up Zhang Xianzhong, who lived in Sichuan, when the war was in full swing.

Of course, Cao Yue didn't have any careless thoughts, and in order for the campaign to go smoothly, he personally took care of the needs of the war. The ordnance, food, and other materials needed by the officers and men at the front were transported with all their might. His request to the Red Lady and Cao Bianjiao was that as long as they could fight the war. Sacrifice less of the soldiers of the Ming Guards, and no matter how much ordnance and food are consumed, they will not hesitate.

The money and silver seized from Beijing were enough for Cao Yue to toss for several years, and he also believed that with a series of reforms, the income of the Ming treasury would grow rapidly, and his family's income would also increase exponentially.

Today's Cao family has become the most prestigious and promising family in the Ming Dynasty, and as Cao Yue's position in the court is further consolidated, the prestige and status of the Cao family and property will only rise.

If you have money in your hands, you can do things a lot willfully, Cao Yue invested a lot of gold and silver in military manufacturing, and gave those technicians high salaries. High input will inevitably have high output, and the speed of the development of the military industry in the Ming Dynasty has exceeded Cao Yue's imagination. With the cumulative efforts of Western technicians and the almost desperate research of local scientific and technological workers, nitrate ******** have also been initially developed and will be put into production soon.

This new type of explosive was developed according to the theory provided by Cao Yue, in fact, if the principle of chemical research is known and the research direction is correct, the results will soon come out.

Ancient scientific and technological workers, before they found the doorway, spent a lot of energy to find out the true meaning of science, but if you know the principle, it is very simple to make it.

Although Cao Yue was not a chemist, he stayed in the army for many years in later generations, and he was more or less familiar with explosives, and the performance and principles of many weapons were also clear.

Also under the personal auspices of Cao Yue, the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences was formally established, with Cao Yue as the honorary president, Song Yingxing as the president, and Fang Yizhi and a European named Descartes as the vice president.

Song Yingxing and Fang Yizhi are the top personnel in Daming Technology, and Cao Yue seems to have heard of Descartes's name in his later life, but he doesn't know what kind of character this is. This character was invited to Daming through other Europeans with a lot of effort and money. Later, Cao Yue learned that this person had extremely high attainments in mathematics and physics, and was a very rare talent, so Cao Yue gave him reuse.

There are already a lot of talents recruited from Europe, at least 200 people in terms of people. As long as there were scholars with a reputation in Europe, Cao Yue would let his agents John Tang and Justin spend their energy digging at any cost. It cost at least tens of millions of taels of silver to dig these people Cao Yue, and after these people came to the Ming Dynasty, Cao Yue gave them a superior life. Of course, the remuneration enjoyed by local scientific and technological personnel is also very high, even higher than that of officials. The people who presided over the affairs of the Academy of Sciences and managed the foreigners were all Han Chinese, and these scholars from the West were, to put it bluntly, technical personnel hired with high salaries, and they earned a good income by contributing their talents and learning.

Recruiting so many foreigners, Tang Ruowang, a foreigner with a great reputation and who had held important positions in the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the original history, and Constine, the leader of the mercenary army around Cao Yue, played a major role, and Cao Yue's attitude towards Corporal Lixian and the high salary he gave also made these foreigners who had ambitions and could show their talents to the world.

With the efforts of these scientific and technological personnel and Cao Yue's point pulling, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty has developed at a high speed, and many novel gadgets have been accidentally tossed out. (To be continued.) )